We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.